From STEREOGUM — The forthcoming issue of Vanity Fair has a list of the Top 40 Movie Soundtracks of All Time, but in anti-climatic fashion, they chose to release the Top 10 online first. Check out the list and commentary spoilers, after the jump!
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OctoberThursday
Fiery Furnaces Display A Golden Pussycat
From STEREOGUM — The new Fiery Furnaces video for Ex-Guru contains all the tripped-out glory one can expect from a video about Gurus. But really, a golden cat? Check it out, after the jump!
OctoberTuesday
15 Years Later, Everybody Still Hurts
From STEREOGUM– Honoring R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People on it’s fifteeth year of life, Stereogum put together a delish little mix of indie bands covering the entire album. Indie yourself out, after the jump!
SeptemberMonday
Cold Case Pays Homage to Kurt Cobain
From STEREOGUM– Leave it to CBS’s Cold Case to put together a plotline loosely based on of the death of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain. After the jump, the details of the episode and some photos of Francis Bean, for good measure!
SeptemberMonday
Just When You Thought Kanye Couldn’t Be Any Whinier, Jared Leto Does Emo “Stronger” Cover
From STEREOGUM — For some unknown reason, someone thought it would be good idea for Jared Leto and his guyliner-loving band 30 Seconds To Mars to do a god-forsaken sad emo cover of Kanye West‘s hit single “Stronger”. Hear all the horribleness for yourselves after the jump!
SeptemberWednesday
Led Zeppelin Finally Decides To Hit The Old “Reunion” ATM Machine
From STEREOGUM – Following an incident in which Jimmy Page randomly happened to stumble upon a music video by Maroon 5 while flipping through channels in his hotel room, he’s rounded up Robert Plant and the rest of the Zep boys for a big reunion tour intended to remind people what rock & roll is actually about. Find out more after the jump!
SeptemberMonday
Yes, I Cheated On You With 3 Doors Down, But At Least I Didn’t Take Any Photos!
From STEREOGUM — Country star Sara Evans is filing for divorce after stumbling across pictures her husband took of him having sex with a bunch of different women. Her husband, however, has retaliated in a most star-studded fashion claiming that she has had affairs with, among others, Kenny Chesney, Richard Marx, and the members of the band 3 Doors Down:
AugustTuesday
Lionel Richie is a Stellar Goalkeeper, Even in the Midst of a Soccer Orgy
If you’re not familiar with STEREOGUM’S “Video Hangover” feature, now’s a good time to start; every week, they dig out one impossibly ridiculous music video from the archives and break it down for you, like, for example, taking a look at “Lady You Bring Me Up” by The Commodores and asking things like “why are Lionel Richie and his bandmates engaged in a really sexually tense soccer game against a group of 80s-shorts-clad women?” or “did they really not have any better takes of that line dancing choreography?”
AugustThursday
Jenny Lewis Gets Married… Kind Of
STEREOGUM brings us the latest video installment from Rilo Kiley, in which Jenny Lewis, opposite a tuxedo-clad Blake Sennett, has some cold feet at her wedding, and the video ultimately concludes with some chaos reminiscent of “November Rain.” Is more description of the song or video beyond ‘Jenny Lewis wearing a wedding dress’ necessary?
AugustMonday
VIDEO HITS ONE: Are They Saying ‘Boooooo’ Fighters?
Forget the days when Foo Fighters were making classic videos like the one for “Learn to Fly” — I’ll happily reminisce about the days when the Foo Fighters were making videos that you could at least criticize by saying “eh, it’s alright, even though it’s no ‘Learn to Fly.’” Here’s the latest offering from Grohl and Co., in which the band plays some slightly angryish music, gets surrounded by the army, then everyone swims in Kool-Aid or something for the final minute. At the risk of sounding judgmental, I must say, I judge it ‘not good.’
